ShawnDoc:Mentat: What's the first lesson they teach you when you're a geek who handles sensitive government information? Beautiful women aren't actually attracted to you.

Heh, time to start hitting up defense conferences and pretending to be a nuclear geek.

It will be a shame when she kills you in your sleep for giving her false information and making her look bad to her superiors. I guess you can take some comfort in the fact that she too will soon be shot.

EvilEgg:ShawnDoc: Mentat: What's the first lesson they teach you when you're a geek who handles sensitive government information? Beautiful women aren't actually attracted to you.

Heh, time to start hitting up defense conferences and pretending to be a nuclear geek.

It will be a shame when she kills you in your sleep for giving her false information and making her look bad to her superiors. I guess you can take some comfort in the fact that she too will soon be shot.

This guy knew exactly what he was doing. He went out of his way to get answers for her. I'm guessing that he's kind of a fat guy that had never gotten any, and the thought of her going away was scary to him. Poor girl had to had to just lay back and think of China.

FTFA:... Person 1, a "27-year-old female citizen of the People's Republic of China" in the United States on a student visa ... Bishop supposedly e-mailed Person 1 classified information on "existing war plans, information regarding nuclear weapons, and relations with international partners." ...

The surveillance trap caught much more than just that one e-mail. Bishop is accused of blabbing to Person 1 about "planned deployment of U.S. strategic nuclear systems"; "the ability of the U.S. to detect low and medium range ballistic missiles of foreign governments"; and, on multiple occasions, "the deployment of U.S. early warning radar systems in the Pacific rim."

Person 1 allegedly used Bishop as her intern. While saying that she didn't want him telling her any secrets, she queried him on what Western powers "know about about the operation of a particular naval asset of the People's Republic of China."

Now, it might be that, as a (former, as of December) defense contractor married to a Chinese national who was in the U.S. on a student visa, that I'm a little bit sympathetic to this guy's plight for personal reasons. Or it might be that some of the accusations sound less than water-tight.

She's a 27-year-old foreign student at a defense conference, which suggests to me that she's not in a technical field, and she's there as an intern, perhaps a law student with a defense company's contracting department. Or maybe she snuck in. Who knows? But then the article says that Bishop was her intern, which makes even less sense.

The characterizations of the leaks are both scary and vague. The fact that the guy's in trouble suggests that there might be something to the leaks, but the fact that it's such a vague accusation could mean that he's being made an example of. But it's that last part that bugs me: the Chinese naval asset they're referring to is most assuredly the new aircraft carrier, and there's any number of ways that can come up in conversation between these two people - for example, the fact that it's been widely publicized and is in the news is one way. It came up between my wife and I because the mother of a mutual friend (another Chinese national on a student visa) of ours was an engineer who worked on the design of the thing.

Clearly this guy lacked the good sense to avoid the questions about work that a loved one invariably asks you, no matter the industry you're in ("What's it like inside a submarine?" "Small."), but I think it's far from clear that he did anything wrong.

You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

Teknowaffle:You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

mekkab:Teknowaffle: You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

It'll never work.

/[insert some regressive bigoted speech here]

It could work.

Our government needs to start a counter chinese poon program to supply all our geeks with free chinese poon. This way their desires will be satiated and the chinese spies will have no effect.

Teknowaffle:You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

It's worse than I originally thought, I expected Howard Wolowitz but a quick checked it turns out he's 59. At some point you'd really need to ask yourself why is this foreign national half my age asking me questions about my country's defences?

Actually, I think Titan ICBM's make perfectly appropriate pillow talk, since they were deactivated in the late 80's as an ICBM, and the space launch fleet was retired in 2005. And since, where ICBM's are concerned, it was one of the biggest, why not impress the ladies?

/least the author could do is spend a few seconds on Google to find some current examples to use...

Clash City Farker:mekkab: Teknowaffle: You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

It'll never work.

/[insert some regressive bigoted speech here]

It could work.

Our government needs to start a counter chinese poon program to supply all our geeks with free chinese poon. This way their desires will be satiated and the chinese spies will have no effect.

So some manner of government funded Asian call girl company? Wonder what department that comes under?

voodoohotdog:Clash City Farker: mekkab: Teknowaffle: You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

It'll never work.

/[insert some regressive bigoted speech here]

It could work.

Our government needs to start a counter chinese poon program to supply all our geeks with free chinese poon. This way their desires will be satiated and the chinese spies will have no effect.

So some manner of government funded Asian call girl company? Wonder what department that comes under?

Teknowaffle:You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

But, won't they be totally confused when they find out that Asian women's genitals aren't really pixelated like in all the porn? Now, that'll be the only thing that turns them on, and the real unpixelated deal won't work on them!

/Seriously, what the hell is the point of producing porn only to censor out the important bits??//It's like producing a slasher flick only to censor out any blood and gore...

Actually, I think Titan ICBM's make perfectly appropriate pillow talk, since they were deactivated in the late 80's as an ICBM, and the space launch fleet was retired in 2005. And since, where ICBM's are concerned, it was one of the biggest, why not impress the ladies?

/least the author could do is spend a few seconds on Google to find some current examples to use...

rabidarmadillo24:This guy knew exactly what he was doing. He went out of his way to get answers for her. I'm guessing that he's kind of a fat guy that had never gotten any, and the thought of her going away was scary to him. Poor girl had to had to just lay back and think of China.

This. Everyone gets a class on "if American women don't find you attractive, foreign women do not either. If you are attractive to them, then it is probably because you have something they want." This guy knew exactly what he was doing, but he was thinking with the wrong head.

Teknowaffle:You know, this whole Asian fetish that is so popularized in the geek subset could really come to the advantage of the Chinese. They could start pumping out Asian porn aimed at the geeks, and make an Asian girl the most desirable thing for a geeky teenager.

Then, when geeky teenagers grow and start working in defense and engineering, the Chinese send over thousands of oriental honey-pots to seduce secrets out of them.

Sonneillon:It's worse than I originally thought, I expected Howard Wolowitz but a quick checked it turns out he's 59. At some point you'd really need to ask yourself why is this foreign national half my age asking me questions about my country's defences?

/Let's hope the sex was good.

Boneheaded actions like this seem to happen with older, "seasoned" professionals way more than you'd expect. I can only conclude that at that age you may be perfectly aware of the risks but you just don't give a shiat. Even if you have a family, the kids are probably grown up, college and house are paid for, and the marriage died a long time ago. Not much time left, and not much left to protect.